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BUTTON GARD.

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HENRY A. BUTTNER, OF SAN QUENTIN, CALIFORNIA.

BUTTON-CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,982, dated January15, 1884. Application filed November 1, 1883. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. BUTTNER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Sau Quentin, in the county of Marin and State ofCalifornia, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inButton- Cards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and eXact description ofthe invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters orfigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to the fastening of buttons upon cards forexhibition and sale, its object being to so fasten the buttons to thecards that they will be securely held in place when desired, but so thatany number can be removed from the card without loosening others, andalso securingthe same in such a manner that the buttons may be readilyreplaced and fastened after having been removed from the card.

The invention will be fully understood from the following particulardescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, and its novelfeatures will be pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a back view of a button-card having buttonssecured thereto according to my invention.v Fig. 2 is a sectional viewtaken through the line :v x off'Fig. l; and Figs. 3, 4., and 5 are viewsof modiiications of my invention.

A designates the button-card, and B the button-eyes passed through slitsin the card.

C indicates wires, having their ends passed through the eyes of buttonsin two opposite rows, the ends being looped around the eyes.'

as shown at a, in order to prevent the wires from slipping cut of place.

D is a central wire lying between the two rows of button-eyes, andpassing through loops I), formed in the cross-wires C, its ends beinglooped into the loops of the end crosswires, as shown at b. The wiresare sufficiently pliable to be easily bent by the fingers, and

when one or more buttons are to be removed the loops are opened and theeyes withdrawn from the slits in the cards. The removal of one buttondoes not affect the fastenings of any of the others, as is the case whenthe buttons are fastened by threads passed through their eyes; and whenone or more buttons are removed the cross-wires will be held in properposition to be readily reattached to the eyes if it is desired to placethe button or buttons again on the card.

In the form of fastening shown in Fig. 3 the central wire is omitted;but when a certain number of buttons are to be removed they may be takenfrom one row, and the wires C will remain attached to the buttons oftheother row and hold them to 'the card, while at the same time said wiresmay be used for reattaching buttons, if desired.

In Fig. 4: the wire D is passed through the buttoneyes of a single rowand looped in each eye, as shown at b2. The buttons may be removed bycutting the wire on each side ofthe eye of one to be removed andunlooping it, or may be unlooped from the end button-eye, and as manymore as desired, without cutting, and maybe again used for securing thebuttons if it is desired5 to refill the card.

In Fig. 5 the wire D is passed through all the button-eyes in a row,butis looped in only the end eyes, as shown at b3. The buttons are removedby unlooping iirst at the end, withdrawing the wire from the eyes of asmany buttons as wanted, and then looping it again in the eye of a buttonsucceeding the last one removed; or if the wire is simply cut it willremain projected through the last button remaining in the incompleterow.

The main idea of the invention is to permit the removal of any number ofbuttons without impairing the fastenings of others, and the subsidiaryidea is to utilize the fastenings for reattaching buttons when desired;and now,

Having described my invention and eX- plained its use, I claiml. Thecombination, with the cross-Wires adapted to be looped in the eyes ofbuttons in In testimony whereof I affix mysi'gnature in 1o presence oftwo Witnesses.

HENRY A. BUTTNER.

Vvftnesses:

G. H. STES-MAN, S. POPE.

